Share/Save – Selling JCPD HQ: Jersey City officials are planning to sell Police Headquarters on Erie Street and move the department to another city location. – Cost of PATH Hub at WTC Rising: Planners of the new World Trade Center say they need another $180 million to finish the major transit hub at the site. [...]
State-of-the-art facility or glorified parking garage. Regardless of how the specifics are depicted — by the administration and Ward E councilman Steven Fulop, respectively — the City Council was updated this week on the development of the Linden Avenue East site where the new DPW/JCIA shared facility will be.
Share/SaveJersey City will soon join dozens of other municipalities across the country and unveil its first-ever solar-powered garbage cans, after the City Council last week approved a contract with Waste Management to provide and install 100 photovoltaic trash compactors along the waterfront. Although the resolution — and the $432,300 contract — raised eyebrows and led [...]
Share/Save- New HCST School: The Hudson County Schools of Technology plans to close its two schools (in Jersey City and North Bergen) and construct a new, $199-million facility in Secaucus. – Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission: Gov. Christie has given the commissioners of the state’s largest sewerage authority seven days to explain why they appear to [...]
Share/Save- Light Rail to Staten Island? With plans afoot to raise the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge, New Jersey Transit is considering a future expansion of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail over the bridge into Staten Island. – ’100 Steps’: Jersey City has taken over the long-delayed “100 Steps” project connecting Hoboken with the Heights from [...]
Share/Save- Murders: The number of murders in Jersey City decreased from 28 in 2009 to 25 in 2010, according to new statistics. In Hudson County, the number of murders rose from 31 to 35 over the same time period and the state saw a 15 percent increase in murders. Meanwhile, a spate of shootings kicked [...]
Share/Save- Cop Layoffs: The Healy administration held off yesterday on filing a plan in Trenton to lay off 82 police officers and demote 12 superior officers in hopes the city’s rank-and-file police union and his administration can strike a deal on concessions. But that didn’t stop hundreds of cops from protesting outside a fundraiser for [...]
Share/Save- PATH: The Port Authority is working on a hush-hush project to terror-proof the four PATH subway tunnels running under the Hudson River to thwart a potential catastrophic bombing that could flood the system, the New York Post has learned. – Cyclist Dies from Crash Injuries: The 24-year-old Jersey City man who was struck by [...]
Share/Save- School 12 Improvements: Capital One Bank and the Heart of America Foundation have teamed up to provide a new reading room at Jersey City’s School 12. – Business Cost: A new study ranks Jersey City and Newark among the 10 most expensive places in the nation to run a company. But as think-tanker Jon [...]
Share/Save- Vega Pleads Guilty: Former council president Mariano Vega* has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from a federal informant. He is due to be sentenced in January, and faces 30 to 37 months in prison. We’ll have more on Vega*’s resignation, the hole on the City Council and other related news later today. Meanwhile, check [...]
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